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Over at the Exchequer, Chancellor Chamberlain, as sympathetic civil servants readily explain, has been unable for some years to receive "distinguished Americans" because he is a plain, blunt Birminghamer who would have to tell the Yankees to their faces what he thinks of debt-minded "Uncle Shylock" (see col. 2). With all this in mind, the Prime Minister and U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham were guests at a House of Commons dinner tendered them last week by a group of M. P.'s pledged "to make contacts with Americans interested in affairs and visiting this country...
...these facts seem improbable in this enlightened age, I can only explain my submission to Father Divine's influence by indicating that I am a colored woman of middle age, with unlimited faith in Divine Providence and a quickness and readiness, through a highly impressionable and emotional mentality, to believe in human perfection and the brotherhood of man. My husband, also colored and of my own age, regards himself as well read in the Bible, and has always sought relief from an inferiority complex resulting from the color of his skin, in the consoling thought of a blessed hereafter...
...child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were in addition, books, prints and paintings ranging from the 18th to the 20th Century, from Pieter Bruegel to contemporary Peter Blume. Having done its best to explain abstract art to the U. S. public last spring (TIME, March 9), the Museum of Modern Art was now attempting to explain another exotic movement with an equally important show broadly titled Exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, or Art of the Marvelous and Fantastic...
...welcoming speech but that, too, was lost in the Exchange's vasty spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...
Long before he moved from Germany to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Albert Einstein wrote an equation based on Planck's little constant h to explain how and why light falling on a metal kicks electrons out of the metal, setting up electric currents. This photoelectric effect is now familiar to laymen because it serves to open doors in restaurants and railway stations, operate drinking fountains...